Background

In 2002, I received my doctorate from Rutgers University, where my training focused on the social, political, and cultural history of modern Europe with an emphasis on France and minor field in twentieth century European social and critical theory. I am the recipient of numerous awards, honors, and fellowships in support of my research and teaching including the Outstanding Academic Title from Choice for my book, the William Koren Jr. Prize for the best article in French history, the Arnold and Lois Graves Award in the Humanities, a Bourse Chateaubriand from the French government, an NEH grant, and the Fulbright-Schuman Fellowship in European Affairs. In 2011 I was a visiting scholar at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. I am the author of Riding the New Wave: Youth and Rejuvenation of France after the Second World War (Stanford University Press, 2007) and the co-editor of Transnational Histories of Youth in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). I am currently completing another book “Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Western Europe” for which I’ve completed research in 40 archives and libraries in seven countries. I teach broadly in modern European history and advise senior research projects in this field.

Education

PhD in Modern European History, Rutgers University, 2002

MA and BA, Murray State University, 1991 and 1994

Published Works

Jobs, Richard Ivan, Riding the New Wave: Youth and the Rejuvenation of France After the Second World War, Stanford University Press, Janurary 2007. (Paperback, 2009)

* awarded Outstanding Academic Title by Choice, 2007

Co-editor with David M. Pomfret, Transnational Histories of Youth in the Twentieth Century. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

“The Grand Tour of Daniel Cohn-Bendit and the Europeanism of 1968,” in May 68:Rethinking France’s Last Revolution, edited by Julian Jackson, James S. Williams, and Anna-Louise Milne. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011.